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Major components
TikiWiki has four major categories of components: content creation and management tools, content organization
tools and navigation aids, communication tools, and configuration and administration tools. These components
enable administrators and users to create and manage content, as well as letting them communicate to others and
configure sites.
In addition, TikiWiki allows each user to choose from various visual themes. These themes are implemented using
CSS and the open source Smarty template engine. Additional themes can be created by a TikiWiki administrator for
branding or customization as well.
Internationalization
Tiki is an international project, supporting many languages. The default interface language in Tiki is English/en, but
any language that can be encoded and displayed using the utf-8 encoding can be supported. [4] Translated strings can
be included via an external language file, or by translating interface strings directly, through the database. As of 29
September 2005, TikiWiki had been fully translated into eight languages and reportedly 90% or more translated into
another five languages, as well as partial translations for nine additional languages.
Tiki also supports interactive translation of actual wiki pages and was the initial wiki engine used in the Cross
Lingual Wiki Engine Project. [5] This allows Tiki-based web sites to have translated content — not just interfaces.
Implementation
TikiWiki is developed primarily in PHP with some JavaScript code. It uses MySQL as a database. It will run on any
server, including Apache and Microsoft's IIS, which provides PHP 5.
TikiWiki components use other open source projects, including Zend Framework, Smarty, jQuery, xajax, HTML
Purifier, FCKeditor, HawHaw, phpCAS, Morcego, and Mapserver as well. If mapserver is used, TikiWiki can
become a Geospatial Content Management System.
Project team
TikiWiki is under active development [6] by a large international community of over 300 developers and
translators, [7] and is one of the largest open-source teams in the world. [8] Project members have donated the
resources and bandwidth required to host the TikiWiki.org website and various subdomains. The project members
refer to this dependence on their own product as "eating their own dogfood", which they have been doing since the
early days of the project [9] . TikiWiki community members also participate to various related events such as
WikiSym and the Libre Software Meeting.
History
TikiWiki has been hosted on SourceForge.net since its intial release (Release 0.9, named Spica) in October 2002. [10]
It was primarily the development of Luis Argerich (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Eduardo Polidor (São Paulo, Brazil),
and Garland Foster (Green Bay, WI, United States).
In July 2003, TikiWiki was named the SourceForge.net July 2003 Project of the Month [11] . In late 2003 a fork of
TikiWiki was used to create TikiPro, later renamed Bitweaver [12] .
In 2008, TikiWiki was named to EContent magazine's Top 100 [13] and in 2009 TikiWiki adopted a six-month release
cycle and announced the selection of a Long Term Support (LTS) version. Currently TikiWiki Release 3.x is used
for LTS.